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Pia1913

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So I understand that you set up an account at a slot using your cruise card for cash but what do you do at the tables?

Is cash used there?

 

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sharkman

 

Cash at the tables, or to have extra cash and not pay a surcharge, send yourself casino cash in advance.

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While on the Golden to Hawaii, any monies applied to the cruise card for use on the PokerPro electronic poker table, could ONLY be used at that poker table and no where else. Some kind of weird agreement with the owner of the poker table. When cashing out poker monies off your card, you did that at the cashier cage.

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I'm being thick here...

Can someone run through how everything works in the casino and if your a winner how you cash it in?

Am assuming you buy chips that are charged to your account then debited back any winnings.

How do you play the slots? Do you need cash or do you get cash from cashier that charges to your account...

We're not gamblers but like a little flutter every now and then and probably will whilst on hols.....Last cruise on the Sundream in 2000 we put £5 in a slot and won £30 then swapped for chips and gambled the lot on red on the roulette wheel that came in...repeated this 3 times and came off about £100 better off.....beginners luck I say!!!

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Just got off Ruby few weeks back and here is how it worked there. You have few options. All slot machines took cash (not change) and the tables you changed cash in for chips. Now if you didn't have cash you had could do one of the following. Use the ATM located in the casino to get money with some high draft fee. You could go to the cage and ask for money using your sea pass card. It would be charged to the room and they give you cash. But they ALSO charge you 3% on top of that. At tables you could use your sea pass card and sign for chips but i think there was a 3% charge there also. Finally (the best way) was to take cash out of the slot machines.

 

To work the slot machines, insert your sea pass card. Set up an account with password. Ask it for money (no surge charge). then you can apply the money as credits to the machine or just cash out. If you cash out, you press the cash out button and take your card to the cage where they give you cash with no surge charge. I did this regularly if i needed cash. I would go to slot machine, put in card, ask for dollar amount, cash out, go to cage, give them my card, then get cash. takes a few extra minutes (5 tops once you get used to it) but better than paying 3%.

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Pia1913

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Just got off Ruby few weeks back and here is how it worked there. You have few options. All slot machines took cash (not change) and the tables you changed cash in for chips. Now if you didn't have cash you had could do one of the following. Use the ATM located in the casino to get money with some high draft fee. You could go to the cage and ask for money using your sea pass card. It would be charged to the room and they give you cash. But they ALSO charge you 3% on top of that. At tables you could use your sea pass card and sign for chips but i think there was a 3% charge there also. Finally (the best way) was to take cash out of the slot machines.

 

To work the slot machines, insert your sea pass card. Set up an account with password. Ask it for money (no surge charge). then you can apply the money as credits to the machine or just cash out. If you cash out, you press the cash out button and take your card to the cage where they give you cash with no surge charge. I did this regularly if i needed cash. I would go to slot machine, put in card, ask for dollar amount, cash out, go to cage, give them my card, then get cash. takes a few extra minutes (5 tops once you get used to it) but better than paying 3%.

 

What you didn't mention is that you cannot get unlimited funds off the slots. There is a limit each time you do this which I believe is $100. That really a pain for someone who needs cash to sit at a table.

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While on the Golden to Hawaii, any monies applied to the cruise card for use on the PokerPro electronic poker table, could ONLY be used at that poker table and no where else. Some kind of weird agreement with the owner of the poker table. When cashing out poker monies off your card, you did that at the cashier cage.

 

 

slightly off topic but were you just on the Golden for the november 10th to 24th cruise? because if you were i was a poker buddy of you on that cruise

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slightly off topic but were you just on the Golden for the november 10th to 24th cruise? because if you were i was a poker buddy of you on that cruise

 

No, we sailed last Feb 28th - Mar 14th 2010, did they still have that rule about money bought at the poker table only being used at the poker table?

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The easiest way would just be to BRING the cash you're going to gamble with...no temptation to gamble more than you can afford to lose! When your gambling fund is gone, it's gone!

Actually, better than carrying cash, you can just send yourself casino credits in the amount you are prepared to loose (:)). That way you can cash in the vouchers as quickly or slowly as you wish. And pay off the gift on your CC before even leaving home. ;)

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Actually, better than carrying cash, you can just send yourself casino credits in the amount you are prepared to loose (:)). That way you can cash in the vouchers as quickly or slowly as you wish. And pay off the gift on your CC before even leaving home. ;)

Toto, I don't want to start a new thread, so I'll ask you here since it's remotely related: if I want to gift myself some regular OBC (not casino credit) and I booked through a TA, do I have to have her do it or can I call (or purchase online with?) Princess directly? Never done it before but I got some birthday money that's in danger of being spent prematurely at Nordstrom if I don't irrevocably commit it to my onboard account in advance!

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Toto, I don't want to start a new thread, so I'll ask you here since it's remotely related: if I want to gift myself some regular OBC (not casino credit) and I booked through a TA, do I have to have her do it or can I call (or purchase online with?) Princess directly? Never done it before but I got some birthday money that's in danger of being spent prematurely at Nordstrom if I don't irrevocably commit it to my onboard account in advance!

 

You can call Princess and gift it to yourself, you don't have to have your TA do this for you. :)

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